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“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” - Albert Einstein My problem: I can’t decide whether to go back in time and be considered a genius, or forward in the hope that mankind has improved and life on earth is truly better. “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” - Albert Einstein Who am I kidding, I have seen the future and it is as Einstein feared: a video game. Perhaps time...

I was laid off yesterday as part of a 12% workforce reduction. Please pray for me and my family - and the same for my former coworkers.

History defines who we are as a nation, love it, hate it, but learn from it. Liberals have no reason to speak out about Confederate monuments. They became even more aggressive and started to destroy Confederate monuments! The current monuments throughout the country of both the union and confederacy layout an important time in history for our great nation, it provides the stories and timeline of what took place and why we separated as a nation. It also reminds us of the sacrifices all Americans made, and it brings to life the African American heroes of the civil war such...

I came across the NY Times article, “Why Kids Can’t Write,” and I couldn’t help it. I had to click on it. Silly me, I got sucked into it, and wasted an afternoon and most of my patience on it. So complicated, she gets fisked. As usual, the original is in italics, and my commentary in bold. On a bright July morning in a windowless conference room in a Manhattan bookstore, several dozen elementary school teachers were learning how to create worksheets that would help children learn to write

Twenty nine years ago today, on February 26, 1991, units of the American Second Armored Cavalry Regiment engaged the armor of the Iraqi Republican Guard Tawakalna Division in the Battle of 73 Easting. The furious action lasted twenty-three minutes. The troop stopped when there was nothing left to shoot. Sporadic contact ranged from nuisance machine gun fire to one company-sized counterattack of T-72s and BMP armored personnel carriers. Tanks and Bradleys destroyed enemy vehicles at long range from the dominating position on the ridge. Three Bradleys from first platoon, led by Lieutenant Michael Petschek, encountered and destroyed four T-72s as...

There used to be a social stigma against believing and behaving as if one is entitled to tell perfect strangers how to speak, what to do, or how to live. Sadly, that stigma is all but gone today. More people than ever are willing to use the force of government to compel their fellow citizens to comply with their own changing set of mandates. I am fascinated by the causes that have compelled so many Americans to lose perspective on this fundamental principle of freedom. Take Michael Bloomberg, please! What drives this man with the freedom to enjoy his wealth...

If you missed President Trump’s press conference on the Coronavirus yesterday evening, you should take time to watch it. – The full stream of it can be found at this link: Full Trump Presser. This was President Donald Trump at his best: Fully in command of the room and the facts, speaking in measured tones, obviously in charge of the situation. Other than some formal international ceremonies, it was with out doubt the most “presidential” event of his entire time in office. He took every question from the enemies of the people assembled in the White House briefing room and...

Talk of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) is everywhere. Here’s what you should know and do to keep yourself and your loved ones healthy.Know the symptoms The new virus causes respiratory illness in humans, usually 2–14 days after exposure. Illnesses have ranged from mild symptoms to severe, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The virus is thought to spread mainly from close contact with an affected person. It spreads in the air, like flu, and through droplets from sneezes and coughs. The droplets can stay suspended in the air and can land on surfaces that are touched by others. Understand...

On Tuesday Cuba’s official communist paper thanked Bernie Sanders for recognizing Fidel Castro’s great progress in education and healthcare. The article appeared on the front page of the official communist website Granma. Of course, what Bernie is saying is complete horse sh*t. Cuba has two healthcare systems. One for the rich Marxist elites and another for the poverty stricken masses. The Gateway Pundit reported on the Cuban healthcare system back in 2007 — with photos.

This film will challenge many and probably most viewers, because it simultaneously tells two initially similar stories at once. There are detailed instructions on the post of how to watch the movie three times to first get each story on its own and then see if you can handle them together. One story come from the subtitles the other one comes from what the comic character Jim Cousens (played by me) says on screen. I believe that this artistic device shows just how hard competing versions for the truth make it to work out what the truth is nowadays. Who...

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office is forming a new "County Gun Team" focused on removing guns from dangerous offenders who don't have a legal right to own a firearm. The specialized, five-person unit will consist of two crime analysts, two investigators and a dedicated gun violence prosecutor. It will focus on the task of removing guns from dangerous offenders who don't have a legal right to own a firearm. “It used to be a part-time job of the particularly motivated,” Marisa McKeown, a supervising deputy district attorney overseeing the D.A.’s Crime Strategies Unit, said at a Monday news...

Philadelphia had emerged as one of the largest thorns in the Trump administration’s side. It wore its sanctuary reputation like a badge of honor, and its leaders, including Kenney and District Attorney Larry Krasner, continued to find ways to outmaneuver ICE’s enforcement efforts. Like their sanctuary laws are not enough now they are ready to open supervised drug injection sites. The nation’s first supervised drug injection site will open next week in South Philadelphia, the site’s operators said Tuesday within hours of a federal judge’s entering a final ruling that the proposed facility would not violate federal law. The project...

I'm sorry but thought this was funny as heck...

Bernie Sanders continues to defend the achievements, trivial as they may be, of brutal and tyrannical governments, namely, Fidel Castro’s communist dictatorship in Cuba. “When dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good,” Sanders said during Tuesday’s Democratic debate, Democrats ought “to acknowledge that.” “Cuba made progress on education,” Sanders continued, drawing boos from the crowd. An angry Sanders responded, “Really? Really?” The problem, of course, is that whatever good Castro accomplished, if you can even call it good, was completely outweighed by the fear and misery he spread throughout Cuba. Castro might have established a...

This is just sick, and Coronavirus had nothing to do with it. – Rush Limbaugh took a lot of crap on Tuesday after he said on his Monday program that the Democrats and their corrupt toadies in the nation’s news media were conspiring to “weaponize” the Coronavirus against President Donald Trump. Since Rush said that, though, the accuracy of his remark has been proven beyond a shadow of any doubt at all. It started with the statement Tuesday morning by CDC official Dr. Nancy Messonnier – who happens to be the sister of Deep State snake Rod Rosenstein – that...

During the ’70s and ’80s, Sanders produced educational materials about labor issues and history. In 1979, he directed a short documentary about his political hero, which is available on YouTube. In between his early forays into electoral politics and his eventual tenure as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Bernie Sanders was still very politically active — but not as a politician. During the late ’70s, he was something of a filmmaker. A year after his last attempt to run for governor of Vermont as the Liberty Union Party candidate, he founded essentially an independent production company, the American People’s Historical Society....

VIDEO What we learned from watching the many hilarious meltdowns at the Democrat Debate in Charleston, South Carolina is that NONE of the candidates have a chance to beat President Trump in November.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has cancelled four events in south Florida set for Wednesday because of illness. Buttigieg campaign spokesman Chris Meagher says the former mayor is sick with a cold.

Hunter Biden is asking a judge to delay his child support deposition scheduled for next week in Arkansas until April 1—a date when the key early primaries for his father Joe Biden's presidential campaign will be finished—according to a court motion filed by his attorney on Tuesday. Brent M. Langdon, Hunter Biden's attorney, argued in the court filing that his client was unable to appear in Little Rock, Arkansas for the looming deposition next week, calling it "unduly burdensome and oppressive." Lawyers for Lunden Alexis Roberts, who is the mother of Biden's 18-month-old baby and who is fighting him for...

The great fear for establishment Democrats right now is that he’s *not* starting to collapse, merely beginning to fade. Dem leaders can tolerate Mike Bloomberg beating Bernie for the nomination; they can also tolerate Mike Bloomberg quickly imploding, clearing a path for Biden to win on Saturday and emerge as the great centrist hope against Sanders next week on Super Tuesday. What they can’t tolerate is a zombie Bloomberg candidacy, one where Bloomy pulls enough votes away from Biden to hold Joe down but not enough to threaten Sanders himself. More than anything else, they need to resolve the so-called...